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Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
1857–1934
Best known for bringing ancient Egypt and the wider ancient Near East to a broad reading public, this pioneering scholar spent decades at the British Museum and wrote widely on Egyptian religion, magic, and literature. His books helped shape popular interest in mummies, the Book of the Dead, and the world of the pharaohs.
7 Audiobooks
Legends of the Gods
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Book of the Dead
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Rosetta Stone
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
by Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge
About the author
Born in 1857, Budge rose from a modest background to become one of Britain’s best-known Egyptologists. He studied ancient languages, joined the British Museum, and built a career around researching and collecting manuscripts and antiquities from Egypt and the Near East.
Over the years, he published a long list of works on Egyptian history, religion, and language, along with translations that introduced many general readers to ancient texts. His writing was energetic and wide-ranging, and for decades it played a big part in how English-speaking readers imagined ancient Egypt.
Today, some of his scholarship is dated, but his influence remains easy to see. He helped popularize Egyptology far beyond academic circles and left behind a body of work that still interests readers curious about myth, ritual, and the ancient world.